Mortal Kombat and
Annihilation and
Calm With Horses. The story is “set in feudal Japan and charts the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds and a mysterious female samurai.”
The Wrap has the news that Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis have joined the
Shogun cast for FX. Jarvis will play John Blackthorne, “a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him, while Sanada is “Lord Toranaga, a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals.” The female samurai role, Lady Mariko, has not been cast yet, but the character is described as “a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties, who must prove her value and allegiance.”